Veneer Chair

There are so many ways to make a chair, but this one is similar to how skateboard decks are made.

Let’s start at the beginning, though, when plywood veneers were being made in British Columbia way back when…

Fast forward to shops making cleaverly designed objects with lots of pressure and woodworking tools:

Thanks for documenting, Victor & Albert Museum, UK.

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/take-a-seat-a-story-of-modernism-in-three-chairs

The Isokon Long Chair, by Marcel Breuer, a Bauhaus student in 1935-1936:

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Other ways to bend wood

Of course, there are clever people who figure out how to cut wood to create their objects, like drum shells, created with segmented curved cuttings, like this:

Or with walnut staves:

Humanity’s creativity is endless.

Conclusion

Close tab, we’re not making drums. Get that off the list.

Update

Had to add this video to the list, because “MY GOODNESS” it’s a well made video (in German) about using 100+ year old wine barral oak staves to make a drum set is so satisfying to watch:

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